Back on topic though, it's dry but overcast here in Edinburgh with the temperatures refusing to drop, and stuck at around 8°C.

Currently 10C cloudy here.

Here in Edinburgh, it's not even the least bit cold.

Under the new system which I am currently using which uses gridded data for my exact location, the temperature is currently 15.1°C here in this part of NW Edinburgh. At the botanic gardens, the current temperature is just slightly warmer at 15.3°C. This is showing that new system is still holding up well. The botanic gardens are just along the road from where I live, but closer to the city centre, so I expect those two temperatures to be fairly similar and with the location that is closest to the city centre being slightly warmer due to the greater urban heating effect. That indeed appears to be the case, even though the figure for the botanic gardens comes from raw BUFR/SYNOP data for that particular station rather than any gridded data.

As for the weather, it's mostly overcast with the odd drizzly shower earlier on. The localised gridded data for here can even give me the sunshine totals for here. The nearest major station which can give out that info from its raw SYNOP/BUFR data is at Gogarbank and that figure for Gogarbank doesn't always completely agree with the much more localised figure for here. For now though, there has been no recorded sunshine here so far today.

It has been said for some time now by many that with the ongoing El Nino event, this autumn was going to end up being wetter and stormier over time but we're now just about halfway through the autumn and I can see absolutely no signs of that happening just yet.

Absolutely pathetic!!😡

Last night was an exceptionally warm night but the temperatures have been gradually dropping over the last few hours after the cold front had moved through. Had that not happened, we might easily have been looking at last night being our warmest October night on record. Given that it's not yet 9am though, we don't even need to worry about any high minimum temperature date records being set now as the temperature at the botanic gardens (the station which is used for determining temperature records for here in Edinburgh) has now dropped to below the required value for that.

That said though, it's still not even the least bit cold with the temperature here in my part of NW Edinburgh at 13.1°C.

Same here 21.3C as well and much warmer than yesteday despite fake high 12C uppers which could had deliver 23-24C here.  It cleared here about 10am so allowed me seeing more sunshine and warmth indoors with shorts on again.  I wore shorts every day since 1st Oct bar yesterday so if this modern Autumn like you said I take it.  I rather have summer as long as possible then jump to winter asap than months and months of Autumnal crap.